Hey, what's up everybody?

Welcome into Tom Curran's Patriots Talk podcast.

Phil Perry will be along in just a second.

I just want to set the table a little bit for this critical Patriots off season.

We've seen them in free agency and now we've heard from them as they lead toward the draft.

And there are myriad people involved in the decisions to be made as we see with the contingents

heading out to see Jaden Daniels and Drake May on consecutive days to scout the quarterbacks for a team

with the number three pick.

Who's got his hands at 10 and 2 on this franchise right now? Seems to be Elliot Wolf. Here's Robert

Kraft this week speaking about Wolf and his vision for what his personnel department should do.

I think Elliot has good training, good pedigree, and we actually have a good group of young people.

I'll tell you, we're starting new chapters in our development and as we evolve here.

And I like the young people we have doing this.

You know, we were in an environment previously where everything really funneled to the top.

And maybe some of the young people that have worked real hard

didn't get a chance to have the positions heard

or maybe didn't speak up as much.

I've encouraged them to be collaborative and I think the combination of

Gerard and Matt and together with Elliot are, I'm actually excited what I've seen. And,

you know, that also sort of ties in with how players

have changed to really over the last 10, 15 years and how systems have changed. So I think

they're in tune and I'm excited. I mean some people call me an eternal optimist so I don't know how much you should take what I say but I really I'm excited by what's going on and the process, and they're thorough.

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